Hey folks,

I'm getting a few e-mails telling me there's a 
party goin' on here. Here's my potluck dish: I 
actually wrote a much funnier reply e-mail, but 
in the end I deleted it and went this one.

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Matt,

I've closed your gallery for the moment. I was 
hoping you'd take the sales stuff down yourself, 
but now you've had two weeks. I'm dissappointed 
that you deliberately took advantage of a lenient 
sales policy. As I said before, if you want to 
run a long-term volume sales operation, you might 
want to try other hosting options. However, our 
server is no longer an option.

jn
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What really got to me was that your most recent 
update was saying that I specifically had given 
you some extra permission to continue in your 
activity. I didn't give you extra permission, I 
just got done telling you to STOP. I take it 
seriously when I am misrepresented by name. Even 
after watching your site for a week, your gallery 
looked pretty open to sales to me. So, I locked 
it.

I'm glad that we've had the opportunity to host 
sites like yours, because it points out inherent 
problems with our lax honor-system policies. In 
larger communities, they become unpleasant and 
difficult to enforce. It's becoming clear that we 
should probably just stick to the written policy 
of no sales period.

Glad to hear you found a new host though. Take it 
easy, bro. And lay off the Mountain Dew, it makes 
you a little excitable. When you start talking 
about digging things out of your toilet, it 
worries all of us. Remember: wash your hands in 
the *sink*.

jn

ps - A special thanks to all the cool people out 
there who support our little project. If Riven 
smuggles us some of those supposedly tasty 
cookies, make sure you get one too.